about the author

Brenden Matthews is a software engineer, entrepreneur, and prolific open source contributor. He has used Rust since the early days of the language and has contributed to several Rust tools and open source projects in addition to using Rust professionally. He’s the author of Conky, a popular system monitor, and a member of the Apache Software Foundation with more than 25 years of industry experience. Brenden is also a YouTube contributor and instructor, as well as a writer of many articles on Rust and other programming languages. He has given talks at a number of technology conferences, including Qcon, LinuxCon, ContainerCon, MesosCon, and All Things Open, as well as at Rust meetups. He has been a GitHub contributor for more than 13 years, with multiple published Rust crates. He has contributed to several open source Rust projects and built production-grade Rust applications professionally.